Wreckfest
Fair · Action · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 17.7h
- Value
- $1.69/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA Geforce GTX 560 or AMD Radeon HD 7770, 32 GB of storage. Windows only.
Wreckfest is a demolition derby themed racing game with soft-body damage modeling, sophisticated driving dynamics and in-depth vehicle upgrading, featuring both demolition derbies and more traditional track races. It’s all about fun, breakneck racing and over-the-top crashes.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in June 2026. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 83 in the 13 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 14 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, BeamNG.drive ($24.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats FlatOut ($7.49, scores 63).
Steam's global achievement data says about 17 percent of players ever finish it. On a 17.7-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 17 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 3,745 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
82% start to 17% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
328 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
The game was fun, until you get to the last "Championship". Same maps, just over and over and over, just more laps. No new maps, nothing really new except maybe big rigs. It's almost like they were like, ♥♥♥♥ the game ends so fast let's add some more useless races in. Also even though it is like a destruction derby game, actually crashing others in normal races really gives you a disadvantage as well. I would expect...
The game provides a nice balance between realism and arcade that makes it really fun to play. Not one race is ever the same because of how chaotic it becomes once cars start crashing into each other, it makes for great replay value. The only bad thing I have to say is that the AI seems to have been made specifically to enrage the player. It will do pretty much everything it can to make you crash, and if it succeeds...
The lack of hours I have on this game is criminal, I really enjoyed playing the career and bit of the multiplayer as well! the game's fun, will more than likely make you laugh in one way or another, the game's overall is solid, and graphics are also great! Would recommend to someone who wants Modern-ish version of FlatOut.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Wreckfest scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/228380/wreckfestThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 13, price as of Sep 24.
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